There are No Children Here Quotes

“the lull before a storm. “Man, give me my tire. My skillet’s missing a tire. I ain’t gonna let no one take nothing from me,”
― Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

“Built in 1975, the Division Four unit is, like Henry Horner, made of cinder block, which jail authorities quickly learned did not provide the best of security. Because prisoners scraped through the mortar with metal spoons, the jail switched to plastic utensils in 1979. And after several inmates used the top of their dressers to beat through the walls, some in as little time as a minute and a half, the dressers were finally removed in 1981.”
― Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

“Her hope—and mine—was that a book about the children would make us all hear, that it would make us all stop and listen.”
― Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

“They’ve seen too much to be children.”
― Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America

“If I grow up, I’d like to be a bus driver,” he told me. If, not when.”
― Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America